User
Score
What's your Vibe?

Login to use TMDB's new rating system.

  • Welcome to Vibes, TMDB's new rating system! For more information, visit the contribution bible.

Overview

Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for ITV and shown between 1974 and 1978. It portrayed life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison. Unlike the later women-in-prison TV series Prisoner and Bad Girls, Within These Walls tended to centre its storylines around the prison staff rather than the inmates.

The lead character was the well-groomed, genteel governor Faye Boswell, and episodes revolved around her attempts to liberalise the prison regime while managing her personal life at home. Another prominent character was her Chief Officer, Mrs. Armitage. Googie Withers left after three series; in Series Four her character was replaced as governor by Helen Forrester, who in turn left to be replaced in the final Series Five by Susan Marshall.

The creator and writer of the programme, David Butler, played the prison chaplain, the Rev Henry Prentice, in some episodes.

As of November 2011 Network DVD have released all five series in the UK, with the exception of "Nowhere for the Kids", an episode from Series Two which appears to have been wiped from the archives.

Series Cast

  1. Jerome Willis as

    Jerome Willis

    72 Episodes

  2. Googie Withers as

    Googie Withers

    72 Episodes

  3. Denys Hawthorne as

    Denys Hawthorne

    72 Episodes

  4. Mona Bruce as

    Mona Bruce

    72 Episodes

  5. Floella Benjamin as

    Floella Benjamin

    5 Episodes

  6. Tony Steedman as

    Tony Steedman

    4 Episodes

  7. Simon MacCorkindale as

    Simon MacCorkindale

    3 Episodes

  8. Ann Mitchell as

    Ann Mitchell

    3 Episodes

  9. Pik-Sen Lim as

    Pik-Sen Lim

    3 Episodes

  10. View More

Full Cast & Crew

Last Season

Season 5

1978 • 13 Episodes

Season 5 of Within These Walls premiered on January 21, 1978.

Is There Anyone There?

(5x13, April 15, 1978) Season Finale

View All Seasons

Within These Walls

Facts

Status Ended

Network

  • See more TV shows from London Weekend Television...

Type Scripted

Original Language English

Keywords

No keywords have been added.

Content Score 

76

Pump it up! We're close now.

Looks like we're missing the following data in en-US or en-US...

  • Created by credit
  • Backdrop
  • Video

Top Contributors

Popularity Trend

Login to report an issue

You need to be logged in to continue. Click here to login or here to sign up.

Can't find a movie or TV show? Login to create it.

Global

s focus the search bar
p open profile menu
esc close an open window
? open keyboard shortcut window

On media pages

b go back (or to parent when applicable)
e go to edit page

On TV season pages

(right arrow) go to next season
(left arrow) go to previous season

On TV episode pages

(right arrow) go to next episode
(left arrow) go to previous episode

On all image pages

a open add image window

On all edit pages

t open translation selector
ctrl+ s submit form

On discussion pages

n create new discussion
w toggle watching status
p toggle public/private
c toggle close/open
a open activity
r reply to discussion
l go to last reply
ctrl+ enter submit your message
(right arrow) next page
(left arrow) previous page

Settings

Want to rate or add this item to a list?

Login